Employer-based insurance has held firm for the last five years, and federal officials predict it will continue to remain strong.Original enclosures:
Source: Despite Fears, Affordable Care Act Has Not Uprooted Employer Coverage
Employer-based insurance has held firm for the last five years, and federal officials predict it will continue to remain strong.Original enclosures:
Source: Despite Fears, Affordable Care Act Has Not Uprooted Employer Coverage
“Leila Stockmarr and I have just come out of a two-hour security check at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. Why were you in Bethlehem? Why did you run in Palestine [they ran a 10k race supporting Palestinian independence, ed.] ? Which Palestinians do you know? Why have you been in Jordan? Who do you know in Jordan?” she wrote. “It ended with the confiscation of Leila’s computer for ‘security reasons’. Leila wrote her PhD on the Israeli weapons industry. Pure harassment. And simply so outrageous,” Schmidt-Nielsen concluded.
Source: Danish politician has work computer confiscated in Israel – The Local
Marine Le Pen aides set up a “sophisticated offshore system” to hide money, France’s Le Monde newspaper claimed on Tuesday as France opened an official probe into money laundering and tax fraud following the “Panama Papers” leak.”A sophisticated offshore system was put in place between Hong Kong, Singapore, the British Virgin Islands and Panama by the close aides of Marine Le pen,” wrote Le Monde on Tuesday.The aim of the system was “to get money out of France, through shell companies and false invoices, to evade French anti-money-laundering authorities,” Le Monde reported.
Source: Panama Papers: Le Pen’s aides set up ‘offshore system’ – The Local
I remember I told the story about the chimp named Old Man who was rescued from medical research and lived with three females on an island with Marc [Cusano], who was looking after them. Marc gradually got to be friends with Old Man, although he had been told he’d kill him, that he hated people. Then, one day, Marc frightened the baby accidentally—he slipped and fell, and the baby screamed, and the mother raced over and bit deeply into his neck. The other two females rushed to help their friend. So here is Marc, thinking, “I’m going to die.” But actually, Old Man, who was so protective of the baby, pulled those three females off and kept them away while Marc dragged himself to safety. You know, if a chimp who has been abused horribly by humans can help a human friend in a time of need, how much more should we help the animals—and other people for that matter—in their time of need?
However, the source warned that his or her “life is in danger”, was only willing to communicate via encrypted channels and refused to meet in person. “How much data are we talking about,” Obermayer asked, according to an account in Wired. “More than you have ever seen,” the source responded. The eventual stash added up to 2.6 terabytes, a 100 times bigger than Wikileaks’ Cablegate, and enough to fill 600 DVDs. Obermayer says he communicated with his source over a series of encrypted channels that they frequently changed, each time deleting all history from their prior exchange. In their Suddeutsche Zeitung report, Obermayer and his co-authors write that the source wanted neither financial compensation nor anything else in return, apart from a few security measures. To this day, Obermayer says he does not know the name of the person or the identity of the person who leaked the documents, but feels he knows the person. “For certain periods I talked to (this person) more than to my wife,” he told Wired.
Now, new research by a group of scientists from around the nation reveals that monarchs may be even more vulnerable to extinction than previously understood. And this in turn means that listing the monarch as endangered under the Endangered Species Act is even more urgent than we thought. These revelations come despite the fact that there was an initial increase in this year’s overwintering monarchs in Mexico. While some news sources reported that the monarchs were “making a comeback” or “on the rebound,” such increases have commonly occurred in previous years. And while the latest news stories linked the reported increases to more milkweed planting, most of these often substantial population fluctuations are more likely caused by factors such as favorable or unfavorable weather. And, as if on cue, a major winter storm has recently reduced the overwintering population. So the optimism about this year’s population increase seems to have been premature. And, in much the same way that a particularly cold winter in one part of the world does not have anything to do with fact that the surface of the planet is getting warmer due to climate change, this year’s increase in monarchs provides no evidence that the long-term trend toward their decline has been reversed. And if the welcome, but limited, planting of milkweed along roadsides, and in parks and gardens has helped, any effect is likely to have been very small. We know that monarch butterfly populations fluctuate greatly, but this new research may also help us better understanding their historic fluctuations by enabling the scientists to place actual numbers on them. By using analytic methods not previously used, these scientists estimate that if current trends are not reversed, there is between an 11 and 57 percent risk of extinction of the Midwest migrating population (the main population by far) within the next 20 years.
Source: More Evidence that Monarch Butterflies Should be Listed as Endangered | Civil Eats
Who, what, where and when: The release of the so-called “Panama Papers” on offshore financial dealings of the wealthy, the famous and the powerful is being called the biggest leak in history.
On the 5th April 1971 midnight the revolution began in earnest and it was confined to the areas where the Sinhalese lived. The simultaneous attacks on police stations went in line with the plan that had been drawn up years before as part of the revolutionary strategy. Between 187-89 the JVP’s armed wing murdered left wing leaders and also trade unionists and activists. Built on a foundation of Sinhalese chauvinism it remains hostile to dissenting political opinions and even the existence of human beings within Sri Lanka of other cultures and religions. This exclusionary nationalism is deeply embedded in the JVP’s DNA, marking their political practice even today. It leaves them with the dubious and contradictory position of upholding majoritarian ethnic nationalism while at the same time adhering to a ‘proletarian internationalism’. Their answer to the great question of post-Independence Sri Lankan politics, the rights of ethnic minorities is simply to wait for the socialist revolution. Their political vision is untouched by the need to widen their electoral coalition, persuade voters or make any compromises with the real problems and challenges facing Sri Lankan people. Dissecting the JVP’s ideological and political articulation explains why.
Source: The April 5: The Day that shook the South and its legacy – Groundviews
Austria plans to deploy soldiers at its border with Italy as part of a “massive” effort to step up border controls amid growing concerns among politicians about migrants and refugees.Original enclosures:
Source: Clashes as Austria pledges to deploy soldiers to Italy border
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